Word: slum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Training School for Girls, in Washington, D. C., when plump, hard-working Carrie Weaver Smith became its superintendent last year, compared to the Girls' Industrial School at Beloit roughly as a slum kindergarten compares to Bryn Mawr. Inmates of the N.T.S.G. were some 60 members of the U. S. capital's worst young female riffraff. Most were colored, some white. The majority were three-time offenders. Practically all had either syphilis or gonorrhea. The plant was an obsolete brick building, with badly ventilated rooms and few sanitary facilities. On the theory that the deplorable conditions...
Exceptional ability in recruiting boys' club leaders from among fields of socially minded undergraduates and success in handling children of the slum areas will be recognized during the next two weeks in a competition for Freshmen and Sophomores to fill vacancies on the Phillips Brooks House social service committee...
...Hyde Park, where he went after his fireside chat, the President this week chose as administrator of the U. S. Housing Authority, to set in motion the $526,000,000 low-cost housing and slum clearance program, small, slender Nathan Straus, 48-year-old scion of Manhattan's great philanthropic and merchandising family, member of the New York City Housing Authority and longtime student of slum problems...
...occasional drops of rain and mist spread over his windshield as he made his way through the New England manufacturing towns that lie between Boston and New Bedford, and the harbor looked cold and grey to him as he crossed over the bridge to Fairhaven and pulled through winding slum streets to the yacht yard. The yard looked mournful, too: several fishermen from Nantucket, old home of the whalers, were tied up at the quay making repairs before going out onto winter waters, while many a boat that he knew under clouds of white canvas he hardly recognized as they...
Senator Byrd squeezed through his amendment, 40-to-39. When the Administration moved for reconsideration, he won again, 40-to-39. The Byrd Amendment 1) holds down the costs of construction to somewhere near the level that $50-a-month families can pay for, and 2) practically cuts out slum clearance for some sections which need it most, for high metropolitan construction costs exceed $1,000 per room...